Tag Archives: Education

RescueDigest Resources: Spinal Stabilization

Christopher Miller Spinal Immobilization

RescueDigest’s Top Picks of essential resources for critical topics in emergency services. What have we been doing all these years? Spinal injuries cause an estimated 6,000 deaths and 5,000 new cases of quadriplegia each year. It’s no wonder that EMS providers have been taught, “Better to board them all than miss a single injury.” But universal spinal immobilization has its ...

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RescueDigest Resources: Patient Care Hand-Off

ED Nurse

A critical safety and quality problem in the United States, patient care hand-off has been described as “The Bermuda Triangle of Healthcare”. Miscommunication is so common that it’s been found that ED staff members remember less than half of the information that EMS relays during verbal reports.

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Hey Educator, You’ve Changed!

So if you’re new educator, don’t try and steamroll over the senior people because they don’t already know all about student centered social mobile online whatchamacallit. And for senior educators and staff in police, fire, and EMS, please continue to bring your knowledge and experience into the classroom, even if you have to stretch a little to do it in new and unfamiliar ways.

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